This colourful and clear resources shows students sentence openers, challenging vocabulary, punctuation and connectives that could be used in their writing. This is very helpful across curriculum for both creative writing and non fiction writing. When printed in colour and laminated the edges can be scored with scissors so that they bend into a pyramid shape. The tab can then be stapled / sellotaped closed.

Two games for use with VCOP. One is a Sentence Openers game - build a paragraph by rolling a dice and follwing the instructions. The second is a board game based on the Fiery Ideas ‘complication’ software. Topics also included: sentence structure and punctuation.

A collection of ideas to develop use of Ros Wilson VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, sentence openers and connectives) collated from TES primary thread. Topics also included: word work; sentence structure and punctuation.

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Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills. Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate connectives in their writing, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Defining connectives types; - Identifying connectives in humorous writing examples; - Analysing connectives in an interesting descriptive passage; - Creating a descriptive piece, using varied connectives; - Peer or self evaluating their writing attempts, and in particular the use of connectives Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided. This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.

Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation, Up Level and Dictionary work. Each of the six areas has 30 to 40 activities that should work well as a carousel keeping children busy during group reading. Based on a few other things I've seen and downloaded. I have simply changed the format, re-vamped the graphics, developed the idea and added to them. Hope it saves someone some work.

Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills. Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate sentence openers, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Defining the different words that they can use to vary how they open sentences; - Identifying varied openers in humorous writing examples; - Analysing varied openings in an interesting descriptive passage; - Creating a descriptive piece, using varied sentence openers; - Peer or self evaluating the effectiveness of their varied sentence openers. Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided. This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.

The letters VCOP, what each letter stands for, conjunctions, excellent openers and vocabulary ready to print and display in your classroom.

72 starters- one starter per slide. Or can be used for literacy intervention lessons. Easy to read, clear font and design. Suit KS2, KS3 and KS4. All starters are for English and Literacy. Starters focus mostly on: SPAG, VCOP, word classes and devices. Print slides for lower ability to work on or ask them to choose 3 questions only from the ones given.

Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills. Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate punctuation, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Defining punctuation marks; - Identifying varied vocabulary in humorous writing examples; - Analysing varied vocabulary in an interesting descriptive passage; - Creating their descriptive piece, using varied vocabulary; - Peer or self evaluating their varied vocabulary attempts. Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided. This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.

Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills. Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate vocabulary, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Defining word types; - Identifying varied vocabulary in humorous writing examples; - Analysing varied vocabulary in an interesting descriptive passage; - Creating their descriptive piece, using varied vocabulary; - Peer or self evaluating their varied vocabulary attempts. Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided. This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.

VCOP PPT explaination for staff or students

resource to support VCOP during writing

Here is a VCOP mat I created for mu children to help support their sentence structure. (No rights owned - Not included in price)

Time-saving, interactive resources for introducing children to VCOP.

VCOP on pencils, presented by level. Coloured to support SEN and Dyslexia friendly.

A Learning Mat to aid with literacy skills; includes common errors, 'VCOP', sentence structure, paragraphing, grammar advice and reading skills. This can be used as a mat placed on desks each lesson to aid with English or literacy in other subjects and ensures students are equipped when writing. It could also be used as a learning poster or display.

A 14-slide presentation illustrating how to use VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation) in your classroom to enhance learning.

Easy flashcards that can be used as table mats when printed A5, or as a display that children can access easily. I bluetacked mine so my children could choose the one they wanted take it back to their desk for spelling purposes. I also used whiteboard markers to star certain words especially connectives that i suggested were applicable for that genre. Vocab ones we also had blank ones so children could write their own words to add to the display

These Banana Boards can be used on student desks to aid with literacy, whether in English or whole school. Once taped together, students can turn them to the appropriate section to help with punctuation, vocabulary or connectives.